Can't figure out a problem with visibility actions.

I'm very new to Construct and game development as a whole, so sorry if my problem has a super obvious solution.

I'd like for the game to start when the player clicks on "Play", but rather than making the things in my event invisible, they stay there. I've already tried destroying them instead, same thing occurs. The only one that follows its intended action is the Play object.

I'm just not understanding why only one of the actions is working but not the others? Like I said, destroying the objects instead doesn't work either. It's been hours and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

Hi, so I'm not entirely sure this is it, but I noticed that on you 'On start of layout' condition, you have a 'set timescale to 0' action. When you set the time scale to zero, that means the entire game is basically paused. That might be what it wrong, but I'm not sure. Just an idea.

I should've mentioned I tried that too, still the same result. Thanks for the idea though